Proverbs 2:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks perverse things;

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  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be deceived: Evil company corrupts good habits.
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 He who walks with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
  • Prov 16:28-30 : 28 A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. 29 A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into a way that is not good. 30 He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things; moving his lips, he brings evil to pass.
  • Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. 4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies, and what is crushed breaks out into a viper.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
  • Ps 17:4-5 : 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer. 5 Hold up my steps in your paths, that my footsteps do not slip.
  • Ps 26:4-5 : 4 I have not sat with false persons, nor will I go in with hypocrites. 5 I have hated the congregation of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.
  • Ps 101:4 : 4 A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
  • Ps 141:4 : 4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with those who do iniquity; and let me not eat of their delicacies.
  • Prov 1:10-19 : 10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. 11 If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; 12 Let us swallow them alive like the grave, and whole, like those who go down into the pit; 13 We shall find all kinds of precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder; 14 Throw in your lot with us; let us all have one purse," 15 My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path; 16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its owners.
  • Prov 3:32 : 32 For the perverse person is an abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
  • Prov 4:14-17 : 14 Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, do not pass by it, turn from it, and pass away. 16 For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
  • Prov 9:6 : 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 2:13-16
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    13Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;

    14Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversity of the wicked;

    15Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

    16To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words;

  • Prov 2:11
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    11Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you;

  • Ps 140:1
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    1Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man;

  • Prov 6:24
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    24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

  • Prov 2:20
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    20That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards his soul shall be far from them.

  • Prov 16:17
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    17The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; he who keeps his way preserves his soul.

  • Prov 4:24
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    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • Prov 4:14-15
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    14Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.

    15Avoid it, do not pass by it, turn from it, and pass away.

  • Ps 140:4
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    4Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have purposed to overthrow my steps.

  • Prov 6:12
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    12A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.

  • Prov 1:15-16
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    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

    16For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

  • Prov 12:6
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    6The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright will deliver them.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

  • Prov 4:27
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    27Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left; remove your foot from evil.

  • Ps 120:2
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    2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.

  • Ps 17:4
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    4Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer.

  • Prov 10:31-32
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    31The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

    32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked speaks perversity.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

  • Prov 11:3
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    3The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the crookedness of transgressors shall destroy them.

  • Ps 101:4
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    4A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

  • Prov 10:9
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    9He who walks uprightly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways shall be known.

  • Prov 16:29
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    29A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into a way that is not good.

  • Prov 12:2
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    2A good man obtains favor from the LORD, but a man of wicked plans will He condemn.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

  • Prov 28:18
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    18Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved, but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

  • Prov 21:8
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    8The way of the guilty is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.

  • Ps 18:26
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    26With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the perverse you will show yourself contrary.

  • Prov 13:15
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    15Good understanding gives favor, but the way of transgressors is hard.

  • Ps 140:11
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    11Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

  • 2 Sam 22:27
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    27With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the perverse you will show yourself shrewd.

  • Ps 141:9
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    9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.

  • Ps 144:11
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    11Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of foreign children, whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

  • Ps 36:3
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    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

  • Prov 12:13
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    13The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the just will come out of trouble.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14Perversity is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

  • Prov 13:6
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    6Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Prov 22:12
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    12The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and He overthrows the words of the transgressor.

  • Ps 64:2
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    2Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity.

  • Prov 11:20
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    20Those who are of a perverse heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the upright in their way are His delight.

  • Prov 27:12
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    12A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.

  • Prov 28:10
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    10Whoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the upright shall have good things in possession.

  • Isa 31:2
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    2Yet He also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back His words: but will rise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who practice iniquity.